Time to make the bosses pay?

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Each day when I wake up I think,
In this world I assume, I’m a failure, no lies.

But knowing that, each night, I can dream,
Imagine being free,
I project my self and observe,
I fly far from your hellish world,
Where there are eyes that penetrate.
They look, they judge, criticising, censoring, punishing.
Mirror, mirror what do you see?
You are deaf, blind and mute,
And what I say, you believe,
Where are my mistakes?
I’ve been looking for years.
I’ve revised my past, my body floats through the present and in the future is my mind,
Resolving problems.
Existence is a dilemma,
In my opinion, he who thinks the most, reaches the answer first.
I see myself moving closer.

How nice life is when there is no hassle,
The landscape is still green and on high the clouds are stretching by.
The air is clean and free flows the wind,
Through the fields. I get up and stretch, I walk and sing, the birds follow me and I smile, hearing melodies in the chirp, chirp, chirp.
Or the tranquillity of the music of a river instead of city trains, cars and screams.

Aiee, its my paradise. There’s no need, and I have no fancy mobile, I have no motorcycle, I step on no accelerator, there is no requirement.
I’m alive and the taste is so exquisite.
For so many awaited and by not many appreciated, let’s not talk about them because they’re finished.
We have to try again, be born again, love and see ourselves flourish,
Mind the earth, because in the end, it’s going to be drained, it’s going to be drained. read full story / add a comment

Each day when I wake up I think,
In this world I assume, I’m a failure, no lies.

But knowing that, each night, I can dream,
Imagine being free,
I project my self and observe,
I fly far from your hellish world,
Where there are eyes that penetrate.
They look, they judge, criticising, censoring, punishing.
Mirror, mirror what do you see?
You are deaf, blind and mute,
And what I say, you believe,
Where are my mistakes?
I’ve been looking for years.
I’ve revised my past, my body floats through the present and in the future is my mind,
Resolving problems.
Existence is a dilemma,
In my opinion, he who thinks the most, reaches the answer first.
I see myself moving closer.

How nice life is when there is no hassle,
The landscape is still green and on high the clouds are stretching by.
The air is clean and free flows the wind,
Through the fields. I get up and stretch, I walk and sing, the birds follow me and I smile, hearing melodies in the chirp, chirp, chirp.
Or the tranquillity of the music of a river instead of city trains, cars and screams.

Aiee, its my paradise. There’s no need, and I have no fancy mobile, I have no motorcycle, I step on no accelerator, there is no requirement.
I’m alive and the taste is so exquisite.
For so many awaited and by not many appreciated, let’s not talk about them because they’re finished.
We have to try again, be born again, love and see ourselves flourish,
Mind the earth, because in the end, it’s going to be drained, it’s going to be drained.

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Shell recently made a big deal out of covering and securing the pipes which are lying around in Mayo, so that the weather can't do any more damage to them. However the rest of the experimental pipeline is rusting away in Donegal it seems...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2158255,00....html
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Mayday street art-action
City arts centre read full story / add a comment

Dick"s new fighting rubbish scourge personnel carrier.!

A MOBILE clean-up squad has been handed €350,000 by Environment Minister Dick Roche,in January 2006, to end the scourge of illegal dumping in his constituency by bin tax dodging,ordinary citizens.

The money is being spent on a special vehicle to remove rubbish illegally fly-tipped and to buy specialist equipment including CCTV with night vision.

The Wicklow Uplands Council will carry out the project in the hilly parts of the county.
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We are holding a protest at the Mansion House to start our campaign against Dublin City Council effectively ending the right to free assembly by ordering its employees to rip down every single event notice posted in the city area.

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All of the Peruvian commercial media regardless of their stance on the recent presidential elections have combined forces to condemn Hugo Chavez, "the Caudillo" who in his latest demonstration of megolomania has threatened to withdraw the Venezuelan diplomatic mission from Lima if Garcia is elected.

indymedia peru are calling for a support of indefinite strikes and have not featured the election (*)

Meanwhile the Peruvian state has appealed to all international bodies to safeguard the legitimacy of the second round of Presidential voting. read full story / add a comment

folks who have gathered over the ages are having a gathering this weekend to see how things are on this little island and little planet.
music, fire, tales, meeting up,
and most importantly

DREAM............................ read full story / add a comment

There was a small enough turnout as per usual at this years May Day demonstration. Though suprisingly there was a very visible contingent of communists. read full story / add a comment

Neville Chamberline returned from his final meeting with Adolf Hitler waving a piece of white paper claiming that Hitler had given him an assurances about Germanys expantionist intentions. We all know what happened next.
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The points system for entry into university is a token of what was a fascination in Ireland with selection processes. Is it time to relax? read full story / add a comment

Uncivil Servant stand accused of playing politics at General Council. Uncivil Servant does not have anyone on General Council. read full story / add a comment

Erris drinking water comes from Carrowmore Lake. The lake is becoming heavily contaminated with aluminium as a by-product of the removal of peat from the site of the giant gas refinery that Shell seek to construct at Beal an Átha Buí (known in English as Ballinaboy or Bellinaboy).

As a part of Shell's scheme the company's contractors have had to transfer tons of peat from Beal an Átha Buí to a facility owned and operated by Bord na Móna at Srahmore. Underneath the top layer of peat is a substance called dobe, which has a very high aluminium content. Rain causes pools of aluminium contaminated water on the site to overflow and run into nearby Carrowmore Lake. Carrowmore Lake is the source of Mayo County Council's drinking water supply for the Erris area.

Controversy has raged about the condition of the drinking water in Erris, since it was found that the water treatment machinery that Shell's contractors are using has never worked to its full capacity. Shell to Sea observers have recorded that the machinery meant to purify the water has rarely worked at all.

The local authority has claimed that there is no problem with the water in Carrowmore Lake. The Council's own testing regime has detected high aluminium content in the drinking water, but instead of properly investigating, they have claimed that this is a consequence of human error in the laboratory.

Campaigners from Shell to Sea set up a table on Friday at lunchtime at the pedestrian entrance to the the Customs House and offered glasses of water from the Erris drinking water supply to staff of the Department of the Environment and Local Government as they leave for lunch.

An invitation to attend the water tasting event was sent to Environment Minister Dick Roche, but no reply was received, and of course he didn't appear.

Unsurprisingly, no one accepted the offer of a glass of water, nor did anyone from the Department come out to speak to the protesters.

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In spite of efforts by Euro MEP Sean O'Neachtain and others to discredit the facts that the CIA has been using Shannon airport for its torture rendition programme, the truth is gradually leaking out. It may take several years for so-called "concrete evidence" such as lists of tortured prisoners who were "rendered" through Shannon, and details of Irish government ministers knowledge and approval of these crimes, to become public, but this will come too. read full story / add a comment

Dublin's Critical Mass Bike Ride
28th April 2006
6.30pm-8.00pm
Dublin City

Graffiti images are from Dublin City

(Images taken on a low end camera, hence the quality!) read full story / add a comment

Limerick Leader offers insult to Anti-war protesters, Shell to Sea protesters and everyone else. It suggests we are Anti-Semitic and Anti-American. read full story / add a comment

The Socialist Party is hosting a public meeting on the topic of 'The Ideas of James Connolly' today. See below for more info read full story / add a comment

The April 2006 issue of The Socialist (#15) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... read full story / add a comment

May Day 2006 - International Workers Day, will be celebrated with a commemorative ceremony at the Lynch memorial plaque in New Street, Sligo, on bank holiday Monday the 1st of May at 8.00.p.m.
This year’s event is being organised by the Connolly Forum.

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